Open Access Week, 23rd to 29th October

Open Access Week

It’s the 10^th Annual International Open Access Week and this year’s theme is about the reasons why we should think about publishing research Open Access, asking the question: “Open In Order To…”  See some examples here and add your thoughts to the story: https://openinorder.to/

You may have seen in the news that Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis has been made freely available as part of Open Access Week, but did you know you can also freely access many research outputs produced by Keele University staff? 

Keele’s Research Repository has almost 4000 documents with 75% published as Open Access and over 103,000 downloads of documents.  This month has the most downloads ever in the history of the repository (we’ve been live since 2014) showing that publishing documents Open Access is making research more widely available than ever before.  Check out the statistics here: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/cgi/stats/report

Want to know more about Open Access at Keele?

Take a look at the Open Access page

Sign up to one of our training sessions, 'Everything you need to know about Open Access and the next REF'. Details here or book through Keele People. https://people.keele.ac.uk/

Find more information about the Library Research Support services and resources here: http://bit.ly/2xiCgN1

Cambridge Histories Online

Explore history on the move with our subscription to over 140 volumes from the Cambridge Histories series.  You can access volumes from the Literature series covering topics, such as, Victorian, Postcolonial and 20^th Century Literature.  Or volumes from the British and European History series, which includes topics on Russian, Medieval and Modern History – from any device with unlimited user access.  

When you come across a chapter or section you’re interested in, you can download and print from the volume.  You can view the full references referred to in the chapters, which may lead you to further reading.  All volumes are fully searchable using keywords, so you can jump straight to the relevant parts.

Cambridge Histories – Literature is available from here: http://bit.ly/2yrfXZo
Cambridge Histories – British and European History is available from here: http://bit.ly/2yv3nFW

*for off campus access login here first: http://bit.ly/CambridgeCore then go to the above links

Or discover the volumes through Library Search: http://bit.ly/2wSCFFV

Greenleaf Online Library

You can access over 250 sustainability themed publications through our subscription to the Greenleaf Online Library - http://bit.ly/2yIAVUb Or discover them through Library Search - http://bit.ly/2wSCFFV

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New banner

It's an Open Day on Sunday, so the old banner has come down and we have a new one!

New books added to stock in September

In September we added 340 new physical titles to library stock, often with multiple copies, as well as ebooks and other things. Lists of these, subdivided by Library, can be found below:

• Campus Library
• Health Library
• LERC Library

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